You are an idiot. If you are going to go online and discuss our offer, it is pulled. Do you think coaches don't all talk and don't read Letsrun? The offer was not a full ride either, it was full tuition due to your ACT. I was allowing you to walk-on but now no P5 school will. Good luck at E/W Nowhere St.

You are not even at the walk-on standard of any P5 school so nice silly thread. Every P5 already has a full roster of guys who are much faster than you and they have an inbox full of messages from 9:15 high schoolers. Give UW Lacrosse a try.

I've been offered a 100% full scholarship to a Power 6 DI school, as I placed Top 7 at the state meet and have run 9:37 as a JR over 3200m.

I'm wondering instead of signing early (which sort've passed but they said they would honor), should I hold out if I run sub-9:30 in track my senior year for a bigger program?

My older brother, who also ran DI, full ride, says take the full ride because these coaches are like car salesmen. Any thoughts?

The school must really have a sucky team, because that time is nothing special. I personally don't believe you, but if you plan to find something better for just breaking 9:30, then you will be disappointed. Any good distance school would not come close to touching a full ride offer for just breaking 9:30, and most at Power 5 schools won't even be interested in you at all.

consider this

RE: Full Scholarship to Power 612/6/2018 11:42PM - in reply to Flagpole

I've been offered a 100% full scholarship to a Power 6 DI school, as I placed Top 7 at the state meet and have run 9:37 as a JR over 3200m.

I'm wondering instead of signing early (which sort've passed but they said they would honor), should I hold out if I run sub-9:30 in track my senior year for a bigger program?

My older brother, who also ran DI, full ride, says take the full ride because these coaches are like car salesmen. Any thoughts?

The school must really have a sucky team, because that time is nothing special. I personally don't believe you, but if you plan to find something better for just breaking 9:30, then you will be disappointed. Any good distance school would not come close to touching a full ride offer for just breaking 9:30, and most at Power 5 schools won't even be interested in you at all.

OP is a girl.

Predictor

RE: Full Scholarship to Power 612/7/2018 6:40AM - in reply to consider this

I considered it but then verified that no girls ran that fast. This is one of those people who doesn’t believe that there really are only 12 scholarships to be split amongst 55 guys on a P5 roster. Assume that 3 go to distance on average and there are 18 guys on the roster. 5 of the guys have run close to 14 minutes, another 5 run 14:30. There are 2 guys running 3:45 and a steepler running 8:49. There is a 29:20 10k. The other 4 are walk-ons who ran 9:25 in HS and are now freshmen who ran 26:30 in XC and will run around 15 minutes this year. The 14 minute guys are only getting about 1/3 scholarships. So the 9:3x Hs guy cant even walk-on.

What are you guys talking about? Here is reference to Power 6, I'm talking schools like UCF. I'm just asking because I've seen 9:30 guys place Top 25 at NCAA XC. And I'm a male and my times are in altitude-like conditions.

"As I've said many times, we are willing to play any Power 6 program in the country," White said, using the AAC's slogan. "The challenge is that not many are willing to play us."

I ran Power 6 and actually thrived on barely being on the travel squad to start the year to being the #2 man by Regionals and then being #1 my SO-SR years and beating a lot of those "Power 5" guys, which most burned out and got injured.

Name 10 guys who ran 9:35 in HS that went on to finish top 25. You will be lucky to find 5 and they will all have run 15 minutes in XC so the track time was due to injury or nonparticipation. Schools are slow because they don’t have scholarships. This is a concept that people don’t want to recognize. It doesn’t make it easier to get a scholarship. Supply and demand takes care of that. If schools gave scholarships to 9:30 guys, 9:20 guys would go there to get the scholarships. Water finds its level and it is around 9:15 where all D1 scholarships start. NAU has developed some slightly slower guys but they started as walk-ons.

People are smart enough to do math. Let’s assume that those guys went to the same college at the same time. That’s 8 guys and more than 6 scholarships and not a great team. See why is is dumb to post stuff like this? I have 7 athletes competing D1 right now. I am not certain of their exact scholarships but they gave me ball park athletic amounts. You probably don’t realize how much is coming from other discounts or how you are calculating room and board.

Your assertion makes even less sense if instate. Assuming some are state schools, coaches try hard to recruit kids at in state rates with some academic money because it is cheap for the kid. If they are going to give a full ride, it is reserved for an out of state stud because they can then give say $50k instead of $25k for in state. It sounds much better doesn’t it? Read the predictor math in an earlier post. Your 9:27 guy or 4:22 guy at Power 5 schools are not even top 7 yet you think they get a full rude over all of the 14 and 14:30 guys on the team who are on small scholarships? Why are your guys more valuable than guys who are faster than them? You would be making the same argument for the sprinters, throwers, jumpers, and hurdlers coming out of HS but there are only 12 to work with.

This is where this board is frustrating. I am trying to help shed light on scholarships and am sharing my information and yet it’s people that don’t know anything about the sport, don’t coach or don’t run, that comment.

That “9:27” slow kid was a Foot Locker Finalist and received multiple full ride offers in and out of state. He chose to go out of state.

Last time I am posting. Good luck.

gotime

RE: Full Scholarship to Power 612/7/2018 12:00PM - in reply to NXN Coach

Hey coach, I think it's how Canova feels about LRC commenting on the training of elites.

I have a fully funded D2 program on the W's side and partially funded on the Men's side. I was catching up with my colleagues in Pittsburgh and it's pretty consistent: I'm losing 9:25-9:55 guys to Division I programs on the Men's side and 5:15-5:25 on the girls side to DI scholarships. I am not saying they all get full rides but they are getting enough money to not go D2 and turn down significant scholarships. My top guy signed for 100% ran 9:47 for 3200m. Story is similar across the board.

Has anyone mentioned grades? Just because you run 9:10 doesn't mean you'll run Division I.